Cinco de Mayo top picks (caution: food talk ahead).
Cinco de Mayo top picks
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Celebrating Cinco de mayo this weekend? We've got a killer list of our favorite food and drinks to keep the celebration going all weekend! From appetizers, to main dishes, drinks (alcoholic- to non alcoholic) and dessert (don't forget the coffee) we have it all covered for you. All these recipes are super easy, low maintenance and are sure to make you the hostess with the mostess. Salud y buen provecho--and be safe!
http://www.flamingtortillas.com/blog/cinco_de_mayo_top_picks
I'm making my first birria tomorrow. At first, a Bayless recipe looked good but finally settled on this one from Masa Assassin. 
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Birria De Chivo Recipe - Goat Stew
This recipe is for the guisado stew form which happens to be my favorite. Another popular method of cooking birria is called tatemada; tatemada employs the two-step form of stovetop steaming followed by oven roasting. You can also use a variety of different meats, goat is my favorite choice.
Ingredients
4 lbs Goat Meat
1 Goat Head (Cabeza) *Optional
5 Guajillo Chiles
5 Ancho Chiles
3 Cascabel Chiles
10 California Chiles (We typically use 12 Cascabel and no California Chiles but we had to tame it down for the family)
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground thyme
5 whole Allspice
10 garlic cloves
3 bay leaves
1 onion
Salt to taste
1/4 cup Vinegar
1 cup of water
Sides
Oregano
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped cilantro
Radishes
Limes
Corn Tortillas
http://masaassassin.blogspot.com/2009/04/birria-de-chivo-recipe-goat-stew.html
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Recipes drive me nuts when they say "red chile" or even "California chile" without specifying if they want fresh or dried. Mark Miller put out a poster in the late 80s or so for people like me who didn't have the whole chile deal down. His coffee table book was good, too, for explaining all the different ways chiles roll.
